Friedrich von Payer
Friedrich von Payer, often only Friedrich Payer, ( born June 12, 1847 in Tübingen, † July 14, 1931 in Stuttgart ) was a German politician ( People's Democratic Party, Progressive People's Party, DDP).
Life and career
Friedrich Payer attended the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Blaubeuren, where he also a high school next to the theological education. As of 1865, he then studied law in Tübingen and was a member of the King Roigel society since 1866. In 1871 he settled as a lawyer in Stuttgart, from 1899, he was also a notary. He was for several years on the board of the Württemberg Chamber of Lawyers.
Party
Payer originally belonged to the Democratic People's Party in Württemberg. He supported the 1907 formation of the Bülow- block and sat down after its breakup in 1909 for the establishment of the Progressive People's Party ( FVP ) a. In the FVP 1910 he had absorbed his home party as the national association. In 1918 he participated in the founding of the DDP.
Member of Parliament
The Stuttgart City Council was Friedrich von Payer at 1892-1896. He was from 1893 to 1912 a member of the Württemberg Chamber of Deputies, which he was president from 1895 to 1912. From 1877 to 1878, from 1880 to 1887 and 1890 to 1918 he was member of the Reichstag. He represented the electoral district of Württemberg 6 ( Reutlingen, Tübingen, Rottenburg ) and was a member of the Group of the People's Party.
Payer fought each for the maintenance and expansion of parliamentary power. He strongly opposed the internal politics of Bismarck. In particular, the MPs fought the Septennat, the definition of the military budget to seven years. In World War I he served as majority leader of the Progressive People's Party, a staunch supporter of Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann -Hollweg. Payer wanted to push through a democratization of the Reich and the Prussian constitution and achieve a negotiated peace with the Western powers. In particular, after the dismissal of Bethmann Hollweg (13 July 1917) Payer was fought in his new office as Vice-Chancellor of the OHL decided.
After the First World War he was a member of the Weimar National Assembly and was there until July 9, 1919 Leader of the DDP. Unlike the majority of DDP on 22 June 1919, he agreed to the signing of the Versailles Treaty.
Public offices
Towards the end of the First World War he was on 9 November 1917 and the takeover of power by the Council of People's Deputies Vice Chancellor of the German Empire. In 1918 he was commissioned by Kaiser Wilhelm II, to jointly develop with Siegfried of Roedern a cabinet list for the new cabinet. Payer even though leaning on October 1, 1918 that it is transmitted Office of the Chancellor, so that the emperor instead, Prince Max von Baden appointed.
Honors
Publications
- From Bethmann-Hollweg to Ebert, memories and pictures, Frankfurt am Main, 1923.